Jonathan Turley On Free Speech

This post is a little dated, two days late, but still relevant even at the speed of the internet. Here are a few snippets from Jonathan Turley’s Washington Post essay, “Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech”

Of course, free speech is often precisely about pissing off other people — challenging social taboos or political values.
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Our entire society is being treated as a crowded theater, and talking about whole subjects is now akin to shouting “fire!”
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Ironically, while some religious organizations are pushing blasphemy laws, religious individuals are increasingly targeted under anti-discrimination laws for their criticism of homosexuals and other groups.
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Whether speech is deemed imflammatory (sic) or hateful or discriminatory or simply false, society is denying speech rights in the name of tolerance, enforcing mutual respect through categorical censorship.